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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Nancy Cartwright and Hermann Minkowski

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

16185	Causality indicates which properties are real [Cartwright,N]
	Full Idea: Causality is a clue to what properties are real.
	From: Nancy Cartwright (How the Laws of Physics Lie [1983], 9.3)
	A reaction: An interesting variant on the Shoemaker proposal that properties actually are causal. I'm not sure that there is anything more to causality that the expression in action of properties, which I take to be powers. Structures are not properties.